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Topic: Caste census

Centre rules out caste-based census in 2021, faults 2011 Socio-Economic & Caste Census survey

Bhadra Sinha -
Centre's response came in an affidavit filed in Supreme Court in response to petition filed by Maharashtra seeking declaration of SECC-2011 raw caste data of OBCs.

EWS quota is a bad law, it needs to go

Dilip Mandal -
The Madras High Court nixed EWS quota in NEET. Not only the Supreme Court, our Parliament too must revisit the EWS law.

The debate on caste census has forgotten Pasmanda Muslims again

Hilal Ahmed -
The political class, it appears, has eventually accepted Hindu-centric imagination of social stratification.

Upper caste networks of political parties are resisting caste census. But not for long

Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd -
Telangana's project shows that caste census can benefit Dalits and OBCs. But parties like BJP and Congress are too busy with their Dwija networks.

Bihar most aware state on caste census — 56% want information released

Rajesh Jain -
We surveyed over 7,000 Indians from 10 states. The result? The fear of the BJP that caste census will upset some social groups is unfounded.

Caste-based headcounts won’t be enough. India needs a full-blown ‘caste census’

Rakesh Chandra -
Until the government machinery gets ready to conduct a full-blown caste-census, it could at least enumerate OBCs by including a caste column in Census 2021.

Caste census is important — whether you are for or against reservation

Yogendra Yadav -
If the support for caste census is political, so is the BJP’s opposition to it now.

India needs a caste census to see if we have conquered the social evil or merely hidden it

Kumar Atul -
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